Europe

ACCEPTANCE & PROCESSING

Intuit’s QuickBooks platform has launched QuickBooks Payments in the UK, an invoicing solution that lets small businesses add a “Pay Now” button for bank-to-bank and card payments directly on their invoices. The new feature aims to combat late payments by making it easier and faster for customers to pay while giving UK SMBs the ability to offer instant Pay by Bank and card checkout options within online invoices, which Intuit says can help them get paid up to three times faster.

BNPL

Notino has partnered with Klarna to introduce flexible Buy Now, Pay Later options across Poland, Ireland, and the UK. Shoppers at Notino can now use the Klarna app to buy beauty products and split payments into instalments at checkout, aiming to boost convenience and sales. By integrating Klarna’s BNPL services, the European online beauty retailer is enhancing its customer experience with more payment choice.

DIGITAL & eCOMMERCE

Doccle has processed Belgium’s first live invoice payment via Wero, the new pan-European instant payment solution. The inaugural Wero transaction marks a milestone in rolling out Wero for e-commerce invoicing. The pilot demonstrates Wero’s promise of fast, secure, cross-border account-to-account payments even for users unfamiliar with mobile apps.

OPEN BANKING & PSD

ClearBank has partnered with Plaid to provide faster, more secure “Pay by Bank” payments for UK businesses and consumers. Through ClearBank’s cloud-native infrastructure and virtual accounts tied to the UK’s Faster Payments Service, the deal simplifies how firms send, receive and reconcile open banking payments.

Rest of the World

ACCEPTANCE & PROCESSING

Nuvei and Microsoft Azure have expanded their partnership, migrating Nuvei’s core payment-processing APIs to run on Azure and leveraging Azure AI for real-time transaction optimisation. The cloud-native architecture offers enhanced scalability, faster performance, improved reliability, and security by eliminating dependence on third-party services.

BNPL

Circle Asia Technologies is rolling out Vietnam’s first AI-powered PayLater card in collaboration with Visa and Pismo. The digital-first card uses advanced AI modelling to offer instant credit approvals and personalized instalment plans to consumers entirely via a mobile app. Aimed at boosting credit inclusion in Vietnam’s largely underpenetrated credit card market, the virtual PayLater card can be issued in minutes and used for global online and in-store payments without a traditional bank account.

SCHEMES

Visa has agreed on a strategic plan with the Central Bank of Syria to build out a modern digital payments ecosystem in Syria as the country reconnects to global networks. Under the partnership Visa will help Syrian financial institutions issue secure EMV chip payment cards and enable tokenized digital wallets according to international standards, marking the first time global scheme cards are introduced in Syria. Visa also intends to rapidly expand merchant acceptance by deploying its low-cost Visa Acceptance Platform technologies to local businesses.